“On the other hand, I dread writing poetry, for, I suppose, the following reasons: a poem is a terrible journey, a painful effort of concentrating the imagination; words are an extremely difficult medium to use, and sometimes when one has spent days trying to say thing clearly one finds that one has only said it dully; above all, the writing of poetry brings one face to face with one’s own personality with all its familiar and clumsy limitations.” – Stephen Spender